Digital Storm’s Undertaking Spark crams a liquid-cooled GTX 1080 right into a ridiculously small rig

Digital Storm’s Undertaking Spark crams a liquid-cooled GTX 1080 right into a ridiculously small rig

What’s smaller than a tissue field however nonetheless packs a liquid-cooled Core i7-8700Ok and a GeForce GTX 1080? Digital Storm’s Undertaking Spark, an idea PC that’s really going to be constructed. It does what no different tiny gaming field has ever carried out earlier than: It packs top-end efficiency right into a 6 x four x 12-inch field.

Digital Storm pulls it off by first beginning with a custom-built enclosure. Not like the standard small PCs that use the industry-standard Mini ITX, Undertaking Spark makes use of the much less in style MicroSTX kind issue.

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Yup. It’s a tiny gaming rig with full liquid cooling.

This isn’t the primary, after all, Silverstone has been pushing its Raven Z idea PC as properly, nevertheless it’s air-cooled and tops out at a GTX 1070.

Undertaking Spark can push hotter due to a liquid-cooled setup that’s usually solely seen in large gaming towers. Like Silverstone’s Raven Z, Undertaking Spark makes use of an MXM module that usually sees motion in huge, thick gaming laptops. Meaning Digital Storm will have the ability to provide all the things from a GeForce GTX 1060 to a GTX 1080.

For storage, Undertaking Spark packs as much as three M.2 SSDs and a 2.5-inch SATA drive. The chassis on the prototype field is plastic, however Digital Storm stated it expects to craft it out of steel when it begins promoting it, presumably by the center of this 12 months.

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Undertaking Spark can take a single 2.5 inch SATA drive and three M.2 SSDs

The value? Dstorm stated it is going to begin at $1,300 with GeForce GTX 1060 graphics and clearly transfer up from there. If it ships, it’ll doubtless be probably the most highly effective liquid-cooled gaming rig we’ve ever seen that’s this tiny. The one different PC that’s extra highly effective and smaller gained’t be obtainable till April 1, 2018 (video right here).

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